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7 Responses to Summit to talk about

For all those who won’t be invited to the Summit, the online community created a wiki called Oz Ideas to be our forum to list and vote on the best ideas to improve Australia. Itâ€™s free and anonymous. The site just acts as a national online brainstorming session. Itâ€™s at http://ozideas.wetpaint.com. There are specific sections for each issue.

Since the public often needs a bit of entertainment to go with their public engagement, there is a fun video on Youtube of Kevin Rudd break dancing with his other white blokey friends. Itâ€™s at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQZa17-Dt_4. See what you think, and if you like it, let others know about both the site and the video.

Yep, you won’t find many savings options put forward from that lot – if either Andrew gets the nod they might do worse than to try and remedy that.

But my bigger concern is that the committee is composed of “insiders” to their particular issue. They’re all worthy people, but they are likely to choose other insiders. Which means you’ll get experts fully acquainted with the conventional wisdom, but it also means you won’t get many new ideas coming out of left field – the supposed point of the whole thing. Maybe Rudd should keep the same people but randomly reallocate the topics.

Messrs Davis, Morgan, Smith and Hartigan will fail to address widening wealth inequality, be blinded to the perils of growthism and favour phrases such as “There is no alternative”, “We must remain globally competitive”, and “Beware a wages breakout, ah…except my own.”